Robert Sedgewick (judge)
Robert Sedgewick (born May 10, 1848 in Aberdeen , Scotland , † August 4, 1906 ) was a Canadian lawyer who was a judge at the Supreme Court of Canada between 1893 and his death in 1906 .
Life
Robert Sedgewick, son of Sedgewick and Jessie Middleton, immigrated to Nova Scotia as a child with his parents and first completed an undergraduate degree at Dalhousie University in Halifax , which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1867 . This was followed by a law degree in the law firm of then Prime Minister of Ontario , John Sandfield Macdonald , in Cornwall . In 1872 he was admitted to the bar in Ontario and in 1873 in Nova Scotia, and until 1888 he ran his own law firm with John James Stewart and later with his brother James Adam Sedgewick and William Benjamin Ross in Halifax.
In 1883 Sedgewick was one of the co-founders of the Schulich School of Law , part of Dalhousie University , which was one of the first law faculties at universities in the British Empire to offer a degree in common law , i.e. the legal system predominant in English-speaking countries that does not only focus on laws , but is based on relevant judicial judgments of the past - so-called precedents - (case law) and is also trained through judicial interpretation. He then took over one of the first professorships at the Schulich School of Law . On February 25, 1888 he was Prime Minister John Macdonald's Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada (Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General) and held these offices until 1893. In this role, he was instrumental in the drafting of Canada's first criminal code which came into effect in 1892.
Subsequently, Sedgewick was appointed on February 18, 1893 by Prime Minister John Thompson to succeed Samuel Henry Strong as a judge at the Supreme Court of Canada . Patterson served on the Supreme Court until his death on August 4, 1906.
Web links
- Supreme Court of Canada - Portrait (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Government Departments and Their Representatives: A History of the Department of Justice
- ^ Supreme Court of Canada: Judges
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sedgewick, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aberdeen , Scotland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1906 |